After a ton of hard work, we are excited to announce our mainnet launch coming June 24th. Get a head start on MPX! You can claim your MKT tokens and make your first trade before our official launch with market makers. Our First Product Soon you will be able to buy or sell…

We are proud to announce the newest addition to our advisory team — Erik Voorhees, the founder and CEO of ShapeShift, a leading digital asset exchange. Erik is a successful serial crypto entrepreneur and also one of the most renowned advocates of crypto technology. A longstanding and well known public…

Hello MARKET Protocol community! We hope you’ve had a chance to read our whitepaper and watch our explainer video. We’ve written extensively about the goal of MARKET Protocol and the many valuable use cases of derivatives, so today we are thrilled to announce the beta release of MPX, our decentralized…

Originally published at marketprotocol.io. Our goal is to build an open-source, decentralized protocol that powers safe, solvent, and trustless derivatives trading, so that crypto users can, for example, protect themselves against price volatility by hedging the price risk of their crypto assets. …

Originally published at marketprotocol.io. Shorting is a common practice among traders, despite the risk of theoretically unlimited downside, because the practice can be incredibly rewarding and has utility for those who are looking to hedge their investments. Short selling enables a trader to profit from declining prices. The trader generates…

Originally published at marketprotocol.io. ICOs have effectuated a massive change in the cryptocurrency space as a novel and innovative approach to crowdfunding. Most of those that the public has deemed popular and game-changing have reached their hard cap rapidly. For instance, the Basic Attention Token (BAT) sale ended in just…

Originally published at marketprotocol.io. When Bitcoin began with its genesis block on January 3, 2009, pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto embedded the following message: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of the second bailout for banks.” In the height of the global financial crisis, this single line introduced Bitcoin to the…

MARKET Protocol is especially excited to announce its latest partnership with ChainLink, the industry leader in decentralized oracle networks and securely providing data to smart contracts. Oracles are crucial for inter-blockchain and off-chain functionality; they are key to decentralized derivatives trading systems’ incorporation of all asset types. ChainLink’s reliable and…

Oracles date back to ancient Norse and Greek mythology. In Greek mythology, an oracle took on a few manifestations, all representing an entity in which information beyond the scope of the mortal world could be retrieved. Apollo, Greek God of the Sun, was an oracle, due to his knowledge of…